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Paper short abstract

In this paper, we examine key perspectives of research studies on leadership in early childhood education, using international leadership frameworks, and evaluates the possibilities of a hybrid of leadership model in ECE in Nigeria. The implication for ECE leadership reform was recommended.

Paper long abstract

Despite an increasing body of research on professional leadership in education globally, few studies have addressed issues directly associated with leadership framework in an emerging field of early childhood education in the Global South. In this paper, we intend to examine key perspectives of research studies on leadership frameworks related to democratic, distributed and pedagogical leadership to come up with a robust leadership model that is both contextual and globalized in early childhood education (ECE) in Nigeria. We reviewed twenty-five published research articles on leadership models in Europe, America and Australia. The paper discusses lessons that Nigeria can learn from international leadership frameworks and evaluates the possibilities of a hybrid of leadership models in early childhood education. Suggestions are made as to how ECE stakeholders can conceptualize and understand issues that bother on effective leadership in Nigeria.

Keywords: Leadership, Early Childhood Education (ECE), Nigeria